2009/9

Grow Your Own Food,

Abram Games (Maker)

This poster was designed in 1942 by Abram Games, in his capacity as Official War Office Poster Designer. It is known as the 'table/fork' poster, and shows a vegetable patch with spade and fork converting into a dining table with a knife and fork. The poster reads 'every available piece of land must be cultivated // Grow Your Own Food // supply your own cookhouse.' The poster was designed to encourage the military to meet more of their own food needs internally by growing food at their camps and bases. This poster is from the original 1942 print run.

Printed colour poster on paper with author's signature and date in pencil on the reverse.

MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Poster designed in 1942 by Abram Games during the Second World War in his capacity as Official War Office Poster Designer. // Known as the table/fork poster, wording reads 'every available piece of land must be cultivated - Grow Your Own Food - supply your own cookhouse' // From the original print run of 4,000. // Abram Games (1914-1996). // Purchased from the artist's estate via his daughter, Naomi Games, as part of the Collecting Twentieth Century Rural Culture project.', MERL miscellaneous note - 'One of a series of posters designed by Abram Games during the Second World War in his capacity as Official War Office Poster Designer. This one was aimed at the military to encourage them to meet more of their own food needs internally by growing it at their camps and bases. It comes from the original print run of 1942.'

1942 - 1942

Games, Abram (Artist)